Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pitches, single-sex sounds are limited. "We obviously don't have the same range as a co-ed group, but I personally prefer a single-sex sound to mixed. Even though we may not be able to sing in the lower octaves, we can still manage to perform many similar numbers," Emert...
Orenstein, however, is a bit too polite in characterizing Matthew Joseph's putdown of Jackson as "condescending." I prefer characterizing it as neo-racist. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...appeal of easy, fresh food is not hard to understand. Exhausted by daily schedules that include work and working out, tired and hungry wage earners crave the instant satisfaction of ready-made meals. Even the hassle of restaurants is too much for the weariest workers, who prefer the barefoot comforts of home. Some may make the effort to arrange the dinner on a plate and eat at a set table, but many, if not most, just dip plastic forks into foil or Styrofoam containers and collapse in front of the TV screen...
Since then, his has been a singularly delicate balancing act, the guest of a nation that would prefer him to remain silent and the enemy of a nation that much of the world is trying to court. Undeterred, the Dalai Lama has organized 53 Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal and set up institutes to preserve his country's arts, its scriptures and its medical traditions. In recent years he has begun to race around the world like a Buddhist John Paul II -- lecturing at Harvard, meeting the Pope and attending to his flock, be they unlettered peasants...
Last September the Conde Nast empire, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue and Gourmet, among others, spent $40 million launching the upmarket Traveler for those who prefer to go where there are civil ways and no civil wars. Under former Times of London Editor Harold Evans, Traveler (circ. 853,490) boasts of its "muscle and vision" -- ratings of not only the world's best restaurants but also the worst, stories more analytical than promotional. Evans touts his magazine's "truth in travel" policy and sniffs at competitor Travel & Leisure as "one seamless travelogue, where all headwaiters...